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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ephrem G Gebreselasie, South Burlington, VT (US);
Alain Loiseau, Williston, VT (US);
Joseph M Lukaitis, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Richard Antoine Poro, Pittsford, VT (US);
Andreas Daniel Stricker, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kimball Watson, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for matching a pair of matched bipolar transistors in an integrated circuit is disclosed. Within a device, it is determined which transistor is a correctable transistor of the pair of bipolar transistors. The correctable transistor is the transistor of the pair of bipolar transistors having a chosen characteristic which when electrically stressed will converge with a chosen characteristic of the other transistor of the pair of bipolar transistors. The pair of bipolar transistors are matched by electrically stressing the correctable transistor of the bipolar transistors.